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I took my car to a dedicated top shop once and they only ordered the material and left the car outside in the rain for a month. Nothing against the quality of work as I think the guy was just overwhelmed. According to him there really isnt anything special about them as far as design goes and IIRC it was quoted to be about $2k for him to order a StayFast canvas top kit and install it, cables and headliner and service the pump. I ended up just picking the car up and he gave me the top kit for the down payment. Ive yet to install it myself and sort of regret getting impatient back then but I didnt want the interior to get ruined.

The 1st thing that comes to mind on this is....... if this occurred while the car was/is (still) in their care why is it that they can't solve the issue on their own? If the car is equipped with light sentry then they should have applied the park brake to keep the lights off while it was/is in their shop, that way the battery wouldn't have been drained. It's not necessary to remove the battery from the car to recharge it, if one wants to protect the PCM one just pulls the PCM fuse, it should be a 15a fuse, like most 1st gen W's it's in the glove box. What you should have is Passkey II, there is a relearn cycle that has to be performed on the Vats module to let you restart the engine.